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Submitted: 5/2/14 • Approved: 5/2/14 • Last Updated: 8/15/15 • R58412-G58411-S3
October 1, 1923 - October 13, 2010
First Spouse: James A Barker
Second Spouse: John D. Godsey
Cozette Barker Godsey BETHESDA, Md. Cozette Barker Godsey, 87, died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. She was the widow of two natives of Bristol, James A. Barker, who died in 1995, and John D. Godsey, who died on Oct. 12, 2010. She was born in Fort Collins, Colo., in 1923, to William F. Hapney and Verna Carter Hapney, and grew up there.
She received a B.S. from Colorado State University and a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University's School of Public Health. She worked in the health field, including positions as a staffer with a commission created by President Truman to study healthcare reform in the 1940s and as a representative of various healthcare interests on Capitol Hill (including the American Occupational Therapists Association). She was a longtime member of Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Md., where she held positions as a deacon and an elder, and more recently, after her second marriage, was a member of Bethesda United Methodist Church, also in Bethesda, Maryland.
She also devoted significant time as a volunteer director of a home health organization in Washington, D.C.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, her sister, Hope Pruckner of San Diego. She is survived by three sons with her first husband, James A. Barker: James A. Barker Jr. (Celine), of Bethesda, Md., John C. Barker (Nancy Cheng) of San Francisco, and Christopher A. Barker (Karen) of Great Falls, Va.; eight grandchildren; and one niece, Susan P. Davey of San Diego.
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